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Darkly #2
Deadly
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Expected 16 Feb 27Grace Kelly glamour meets The Inheritance Games stakes in this glittering young adult mystery where puzzles, romance and danger shimmer. A sequel to the national bestseller DARKLY.
Months after the haunting events of Darkly, Dia is chasing light—Paris, old friends, maybe even closure. But when her old crush Poe vanishes without a trace, her search leads to his ransacked apartment, a stolen Louisiana Veda ghost game, and whispers of a decades-old murder at a legendary Riviera hotel.
As secrets swirl beneath the surface of luxury, Dia finds herself drawn into a mystery that blurs the line between myth and truth. The deeper she goes, the more she the stolen game isn’t just haunted—it’s hiding something. And someone doesn’t want it found.
The twisted mechanics of the Darkly empire have been set in motion again. But this time it is unfolding against a panorama of evil and conspiracy vaster than Dia ever imagined.
Welcome back to the world of Darkly. Where the past is a puzzle, the present is a trap, and the only way out is to play.
Months after the haunting events of Darkly, Dia is chasing light—Paris, old friends, maybe even closure. But when her old crush Poe vanishes without a trace, her search leads to his ransacked apartment, a stolen Louisiana Veda ghost game, and whispers of a decades-old murder at a legendary Riviera hotel.
As secrets swirl beneath the surface of luxury, Dia finds herself drawn into a mystery that blurs the line between myth and truth. The deeper she goes, the more she the stolen game isn’t just haunted—it’s hiding something. And someone doesn’t want it found.
The twisted mechanics of the Darkly empire have been set in motion again. But this time it is unfolding against a panorama of evil and conspiracy vaster than Dia ever imagined.
Welcome back to the world of Darkly. Where the past is a puzzle, the present is a trap, and the only way out is to play.
Kindle Edition
Expected publication February 16, 2027
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Marisha Pessl
7 books4,505 followersMarisha Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and now lives in New York City. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, her debut novel, was a bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. It won the 2006 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize), and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Her new novel, Night Film, comes out August 20, 2013.
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July 3, 2026YES I KNEW THERE WOULD BE A SEQUEL!!! :D
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